Join scientific researchers and leaders from private, public and non-profit organizations that are pioneering the way to a world where all people thrive by protecting and regenerating Earth’s natural systems for generations to come.

Seminars will be held on the first Wednesday of each month from 1:oo p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET and will be held as an online event through the Zoom platform. Seminars are open to all Harvard and non-Harvard affiliated individuals.

Fall 2021 Schedule

Seminar	Speaker	Discussant
Planetary Health: Environmental Health 4.0 Wednesday, October 6 2021 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET Video	Howard Frumkin, MD, PhD Professor Emeritus, University of Washington School of Public Health Senior Vice President, Trust for Public Land	Allan Brandt, PhD Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine Professor of the History of Science Department of the History of Science (FAS) Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (HMS) Harvard University
Drivers of malaria in Guyana: The impact of gold mining Wednesday, November 3 2021 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET Video	Caroline Buckee, PhD Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health	Sanna Sokolow, DVM, PhD Executive Director of the Program for Disease Ecology Health and the Environment, Stanford University
Bees as Health Workers: How Pollinators Protect Human Health Wednesday, December 1 2021 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET Video	Lucas Garibaldi, PhD Director, Institute for Research in Natural Resources, Agroecology and Rural Development, Sede Andina – National University of Río Negro and National Scientific and Technical Research Council. Matthew Smith, PhD Research Scientist, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health	Frank Hu, MD, MPH, PhDFredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology; Chair, Department of Nutrition
Planetary Change is Driving New Patterns of Non-Communicable Disease Wednesday, January 5 2022 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET Video	Francesca Dominici, PhD Co-Director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative, Harvard University and the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population and Data Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Pauline Scheelbeek, PhD Assistant Professor in Nutritional and Environmental Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Philip Landrigan, MD, MSc Professor and Director, Global Public Health Program and Global Pollution Observatory Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Boston College	Sam Myers, MD, MPH Principal Research Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director, Planetary Health Alliance
Planetary Mental Health: How Accelerating Environmental Change is Impacting the Mental Health of Different Populations Wednesday, February 2 2022 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET Vide0	Frederick J. Stoddard Jr, MD Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital and Shriners HospitalCaroline Hickman, MSLecturer, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, Centre for Analysis of Social Policy, University of BathAshlee Cunsolo, PhDFounding Dean, School of Arts and Subarctic, Labrador Institute Memorial University	Lise Van Susteren, MD Practicing General and Forensic Psychiatrist, Washington DC
Displacement and Conflict: How Biophysical Changes are Undermining Global Security Wednesday, March 2 2022 1:oo – 2:00 pm ET Video	Hélène Benveniste, PhD Postdoctoral Environmental Fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment based at the Harvard Kennedy School Cullen Hendrix, PhD Professor, Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics; Nonresident Senior Research Fellow, Center for Climate & Security. Jon Proctor, PhD Postdoctoral fellow jointly at the Harvard Data Science Initiative and the Harvard Center for the Environment
How the Private Sector Can Help Stimulate a Great Transition toward Planetary Health Thursday, April 7 2022 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET Video	Rüdiger Krech, MD, DrPH Director of the Department of Health Promotion, World Health Organization Paul Polman Influencer, business leader, campaigner, Co-Author of “Net Positive: how courageous companies thrive by giving more than they take.” Michael Weatherhead Development Lead, Wellbeing Economy Alliance	Dr. Iris Martine Blom MPhil/PhD Candidate Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Planetary Health as a Frame for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Wednesday, 4 May 2022 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET Video	Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim President, Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad (AFPAT) Achim Steiner Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)	Samuel Myers, MD, MPH Director, Planetary Health Alliance